{"id":7996,"date":"2023-09-11T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=7996"},"modified":"2023-09-04T13:01:28","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T17:01:28","slug":"we-need-more-expert-witnesses-in-the-field-of-dynamics-of-violent-encounters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/we-need-more-expert-witnesses-in-the-field-of-dynamics-of-violent-encounters\/","title":{"rendered":"WE NEED MORE EXPERT WITNESSES IN THE FIELD OF DYNAMICS OF VIOLENT ENCOUNTERS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In 2016, a young woman who stood five feet tall and weighed barely a hundred pounds was set upon by three people who outweighed her. One of them appeared to have a gun in their pocket. She drew her own legally carried pistol to make them leave her alone, and when another of the opponents threatened to take the gun and kill her with it and started to lunge, she fired a single shot which stopped the attack.&nbsp; She was criminally charged. Her attorney did not use expert testimony in her defense even though one such expert was available at no charge. She was convicted and has been behind bars for about six years. We are awaiting the results of her appellate hearing, in which I testified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The general public \u2013 the jury pool \u2013 does not understand the well-established fact that disparity of physical force warrants the use of a deadly weapon against ostensibly unarmed attackers who are likely to overpower you and kill or cripple you. Sadly, some attorneys don\u2019t understand it either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When defense lawyers <em>do <\/em>understand, expert testimony can make a significant difference. <a href=\"https:\/\/americanhandgunner.com\/discover\/eggshell-skull-the-case-of-the-vulnerable-victim\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Here\u2019s a case<\/a> where I testified earlier this year:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve been an expert witness for the courts for 44 years now, and my colleague Marty Hayes for 33.&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/gundigest.com\/handguns\/personal-defense\/expert-witness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Marty explains the need<\/a> for expert witnesses in self-defense cases clearly in this article, which recently appeared in <em>Gun Digest <\/em>magazine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many of you reading this could qualify as expert witnesses on these matters yourselves. And <em>any <\/em>of you might wind up being wrongly accused in criminal or civil court after even the most righteous act of self-defense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2016, a young woman who stood five feet tall and weighed barely a hundred pounds was set upon by three people who outweighed her. One of them appeared to have a gun in their pocket. She drew her own legally carried pistol to make them leave her alone, and when another of the opponents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7996","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7996"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8009,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7996\/revisions\/8009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}